Results from the Denver Neighborhood Study (DNS) indicated no
significant interaction of neighborhood and family structure on the
likelihood of youth violent victimization or youth violent
offending. However, findings among the high-risk sample contained
in the Denver Youth Survey (DYS) revealed that living in
single-parent families in disadvantaged neighborhoods was a
significant risk factor for violent victimization among youth. It
is important to note, however, that the highest rates of youth
violent victimization and offending were not found in the most
disorganized neighborhoods but rather in the moderately
disorganized neighborhoods with moderate to high arrest rates. The
findings specific to youth violent offending indicated that living
in a single-parent family had a greater negative effect in "good"
neighborhoods than it did in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The study
was an attempt to replicate the findings from a previous study
(Lauritsen 2003) that drew on data from the National Crime
Victimization Survey; this study found that children in
single-parent families were at higher risk for violent
victimization and that this risk was magnified in disadvantaged
neighborhoods. Data for the current analysis were drawn from two
data sources: the DNS, a cross-sectional study of the entire city
of Denver, and the DYS, a long-term longitudinal study of Denver's
high-risk neighborhoods. The findings of the current study failed
to replicate the Lauritsen study, although the author notes that
the different data sources used for each study could be a main
reason for the divergent findings. The many gender differences that
emerged in this analysis deserve future research attention.
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